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...December the Commerce Department initiated a complaint charging that Japanese semiconductor manufacturers were selling products in the U.S. market at prices below the cost of production, a practice known as dumping. That triggered an investigation by the International Trade Commission to determine whether U.S. makers of the 256K DRAM chips commonly used in computers and other electronic equipment had been injured by imports. In a preliminary ruling last week, the ITC found that they had. The Commerce ; Department will now determine whether dumping has occurred. If it has, the department will calculate the dumping margin, which is the difference between...
...early 1950s, many Americans--especially conservative Republicans--have yearned to "liberate" the "captive nations" of Eastern Europe from the grip of Communism. That the U.S. was powerless to fulfill that wish by action short of war has not stopped various Administrations from trying at least to chip away at Soviet domination of the East bloc. Secretary of State George Shultz last week became the latest U.S. statesman to try, touring a trio of East European capitals in the hope of lifting the Iron Curtain an inch...
When the autumn rally started in September, it was a blue-chip affair. The rising stocks included mainly companies like IBM and General Foods. Now it is a much broader rally. Says Leon Cooperman, a partner of Goldman, Sachs: "The whole market has performed much better than expected." Airline and other transportation issues began doing well in November, and last week high- technology stocks, which have been in the dumps for nearly two years, also took...
...saving graces are the Creamery's waffle cones and the chocolate chip ice cream which is to rumored to be the best around...
...saddest, and also the most ominous, majority gripe is the implicit assumption that a combination of increased social spending and voluntary social service will successfully address America's domestic problems. This may indeed prove to be the case; but if it's not, a widespread reluctance to chip in with time rather than money could prove disastrous for the United States. We observe many examples in the world today of nations tearing themselves up from within because various groups feel hopelessly alienated from and/or oppressed by others. Americans cannot feel smugly insulated from such strains; national service could...